Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that pro-French, pro-League Nicholas Titulescu was greeted by National Peasant Party Leader Nicolai Lupu-who declared amid cheers, "You were deprived of your Cabinet post by trickery!"-set rumors buzzing. It was said that the Peasant Party will insure his re-election to a seat in the Rumanian Chamber and generally back his political comeback, although he never has belonged to the Peasant Party...
Rumanian politics are a good deal like a gypsy encampment and, paradoxically, last week the Rumanian Iron Guard, generally considered Statesman Titulescu's poisoners, had just made a most peculiar pact with Dr. Julius Maniu, the messiah of the Peasant Party. It was described as follows by Iron Guard Leader Cornelius Zelea Codreanu: "The fact is that Dr. Maniu is for democracy and I am opposed to it. In the minorities matter, Dr. Maniu is for justice and tolerance, and I am for justice and intolerance. There is no justice compelling us to share the rule of this country...
What the agreement uniting such opposites as the Peasant Party and the Iron Guard did do was suavely explained by Dr. Maniu. "The pact our two parties have made implies no abatement of their political hostility," he said. "It simply means that the Peasant Party and the Iron Guard will strive together to prevent the Government from dominating the elections...
...dominant note of the book is contained in the curious and eye-catching title. It is the story of the awakening of the peasant from his long sleep of ignorance and superstition and the clumsiness with which they have tried to grasp hold of their new and streamlined life. Mr. Duranty often has an amused smile on his lips when he tells of the strange effects which the attempts to adapt themselves to their boss comrades' ideas of civilization have on these simple people, but he is gentle with them throughout and never sharply satirical...
...farm, makes an only half-serious promise to Karelina (then just in her teens and worried about life) to help her if things get too much for her. Before long she needs his assistance. She is married off to one Gomar t'Joens, and Gomar -a typical Walloon peasant, roundheaded, hard-drinking, tough-natured - soon proves to be a caution for cats. His small inn becomes a way station for tobacco-smuggling across the French border, and, as Gomar gets deeper into the racket, Karelina's life sinks to that of a drudge in a roistering, rustic underworld...